Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends of the Earth groups around the world have been publicising the plight of the rainforest and have had particular success in Brazil , supporting Paulinho Paiakan of the Kayapo and other tribal leaders . |
| 2 | Junior ministers have been inviting the sack by asking him to resign . |
| 3 | Although President Bush has been opposed to any such deal , Miami lawyers acting for Gen Noriega and leading US senators have been exploring the possibility of an agreement that could lead to a ceasefire and freedom for the American hostages . |
| 4 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 5 | Western experts have been reconstructing the course of events that led to the explosion in a tank containing uranium and plutonium , with the help of reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency , which visited the site after the incident . |
| 6 | Council officers in Sefton now plan a clamp-down after a survey in the borough found retailers have been flouting the law by selling tobacco to under 16s and failing to display the statutory notices . |
| 7 | Representatives of the EEC 's technical assistance programme have been promoting the technology in Pacific islands like Fiji and Tonga . |
| 8 | Manchester City have been tracking the 30-year-old since the summer , but Everton could provide the perfect escape route . |
| 9 | You seem as if you have been taking the walk in the rain . |
| 10 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 11 | Attempting to predict the changes likely to take place in practices and in the world at large and their consequences for Institutional education policy , has been a function of the educational committees of the Institution and the centres of full-time education , all of whom have been addressing the question since early 1985 . |
| 12 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 13 | We have been considering the subject of history . |
| 14 | US regulatory officials have been using the level of CD4 ( T-helper ) cells as a surrogate measure of the progress ( and alleviation ) of AIDS symptoms . |
| 15 | I have been using the playhouse for about ten years now and going back to the point that someone made earlier about sex well about erm racism sexism is does n't that count as censorship . |
| 16 | Before the Swinbrook farmer had finished talking to them , Boz leaped to his feet to say , angrily , ‘ We Romanies have been using the forest for hundreds of years . |
| 17 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 18 | Meanwhile residents of Ewyas Harold have been counting the cost of yesterdays flooding . |
| 19 | European leaders have been watching the turmoil over Europe in the Tory Party with increasing alarm . |
| 20 | Crash investigators have been sifting the wreckage of the French Airbus in which eighty-seven people died . |
| 21 | For two years we have been refocussing the organisation of the profession and defining our key objectives . |
| 22 | ‘ People have been buying the Mirror as a souvenir , snapping up five or six at a time . ’ |
| 23 | The Foggitt family have been monitoring the weather in Thirsk , North Yorkshire , since 1881 . |
| 24 | More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate . |
| 25 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 26 | The police have been searching the site for clues , and talking to eye witnesses . |
| 27 | Police investigating the death of a woman , whose body was discovered in a car pulled from the River Severn , have been searching the riverbank for clues . |
| 28 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have been discussing the possibility of a merger between the two companies according to the San Jose Mercury News Apple declined to comment on the report , and Novell denied it , saying that ‘ We 're always in industry discussions with them , but we 're not having discussions with them about merging , ’ but the paper says that the talks between Apple chairman John Sculley and Novell chairman Ray Noorda were a closely-guarded secret and known only by an elite group of senior executives at the two firms . |
| 29 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 30 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |